More information : (SK 64850565) Scraptoft Hall (NAT) (1)
SCRAPTOFT
SK60 NW CHURCH HILL
(East Side)
1/81 Scraptoft Hall
19.10.51
GV II*
Country house, now part of Leicester Polytechnic. Dated 1723, but
with C17 core, and rear wing of 1896. Ashlar entrance front,
otherwise rendered and whitewashed elevations with stone dressings
and quoins and parapetted and Swithland slate roofs. Rendered
ridge and side stacks only visible on rear wing. Fine entrance
front of 3 storeys and basement of 5 6/6 sash windows. Moulded
stone frames with keystones and aprons. Central 2nd floor window
has rounded arch. On ground floor up a flight of 6 stone steps
the central painted moulded stone doorcase. Keystone, and open
curved pediment supported on carved consoles. 8-panelled door
and overlight, the flazing bars forming a fanlight. To either side
a giant order reacing to top of 1st floor. A single fluted
Corinthian pilaster with entablature. Above this a pilaster strip
continues to parapet. This curves up slightly at the central
section and at the corners. Here rusticated quoins as if a
pilaster strip. To right of doorway, in basement, a pair of
1-light windows, otherwise blocked openings. Garden to front, to
right, is similar but with rendered elevation and no giant order.
To right the 1896 1 storey wing with canted bay and 6/9 sashes.
The left front is similar to the garden front but the stone
frames to the windows have cambered tops. Here also a large C20
rounded bay window. Inside are a black and white marble floor
in the entrance hall, a probably contemporary oak staircase with
turned balusters (3 to the tread), C18 paneling, and C17 stone
fireplaces (with four-centred arches) and stone mullion window,
probably from the earlier house. Scraptoft Hall was 'built, or
rather, considerably enlarged' by Letetia, widow of
Sir Edward Wigley. V.C.H., Vol. V and Pevsner.
SCRAPTOFT
SK 60 NW CHURCH HILL
(East Side)
Stableblock at
1/82 Scraptoft Hall
GV II
Stableblock, now mainly offices/classrooms. Earlier C18. Red
brick and Swithland slate roof with brick ridge stacks. Brick
moulded eaves and brick coped gables in part. L plan, the wing
projecting forwards on left. 1 storey. A central open carriageway
with cambered arch and simple pediment above. To right a 6/6 sash
window, door, and 6/6 sash. To left a blocked doorway with painted
moulded stone surround. A cushion frieze, cornice, and keystone.
2 similar doorways, now windows, in the wing to left. Further
ranges partly with Welsh slate roofs extending to right and rear.
Included for group value.
SK 60 NW CHURCH HILL
(East Side)
1/83
Walls, gate
piers and gates
at Scraptoft
Hall
GV II*
Walls, gate piers and gates. Earlier C18. Red brick, stone and
wrought iron. Brick, stone coped, wall c2m high projects forward
from either corner of entrance front of Scrptoft Hall (q.v.)
and forms forecourt with wrought iron screen across the front.
On either side are a pair of cemented gate piers with fine wrought
iron gates. On left side a further pair of piers and gates of
c1900. There is also a pair of brick piers with gates of the left
corner across the driveway to be stableblock (q.v.). Stone
pineapple finials. However the outstanding feature is the gate
in the centre of the forecourt screen. Elaborate wrought iron
work with scrolls and foliage, and cresting with ram's head crest.
'A set of superb iron gates'. Pevsner, where illustration, pl.36.
This gate and the pineapple finials removed for repair 1984.
SCRAPTOFT
SK 60 NE CHURCH HILL
(East Side)
2/84 Grotto at
Scraptoft Hall
II
Grotto. Later C18. Red brick, lined with coursed squared stone
and shell work incorporating chrystaline stone. Rectangular plan,
c3m x 2m, with stone work inside like a plinth. Above is the
shell work on walls. On the simple quadrapartite shallow vault
this forms a vaulting pattern. (2)
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